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You should learn a bit of biology or medicine.

Stop bluffing, unless you know what it takes to get an organ successfully transplanted to someone. And I see you don't.

A really simple rule: if one would intend to get transplantable organs, one would not drop construction material on the person. One would transport the person to a hospital without any delay. Doctors would be the persons telling of which violations are happening.

As things are, both Israel and some other countries (Russia) have the habit of returning the bodies of some prisoners who died under suspicious circumstances without some organs. For example, an Ukrainian journalist's body was returned without her brain and throat. No, she's not living in another body, brain transplants are fantasy. She was likely strangled to death and organs removed to conceal torture.

I am currently under the impression that this practise serves the purpose of concealing torture (or other crimes) in several places, with one exception - China.

China has been credibly accused of actually harvesting organs from prisoners executed in prisons. This is feasible for them, since a prisoner after execution can be tested before they are killed, and is immediately available for dissection and cooling of organs, which can then be rushed to an airport for sending to the correct hospital. I have good reason to suspect it's happening. Needless to say, it's an extremely serious crime.

However, I have not heard of any successful (no matter whether voluntary or forced) organ donation from a person who experienced circulatory death in field conditions and was transported slowly from a considerable distance. Jenin is in the West Bank. Do you think doctors in the West Bank would accommodate a request from the IDF to remove, test and cool organs for from a shooting victim for transplantation? I don't think even Israeli doctors would.

If you think differently, I would like to see evidence.

As the thread tells us, IDF committed two war crimes: shooting prisoners and desecrating their bodies. There is no need to spread silly rumours on top of that. Reality is bad enough.

More like "to the last ounce of gold in the central bank's reserves" (they're already selling it and it won't last much beyond 6 months). After that, more soldiers can't be hired, salaries can't be paid and more Chinese tech can't be bought, unless oil revenues recover (Ukraine will ensure they won't).

answersplease77@lemmy.world wrote:

and took the bodies afterward for organ harvesting

False. Instead they used an excacator to collapse part of the warehouse building (the rather large liftable door) on the victims' bodies, likely hoping to hide their deeds for a while. They were unaware that a journalist was filming them with a telephoto lens.

If the acting president wants, supposedly yes. Emperor Bush II made it thusly, upon going into Iraq for the second time, this time based on lies (and resultingly, starting up ISIS).

(Note: president Bush I had gone into Iraq based on a valid UN resolution due to Iraqi agression.)

The text of the Act has been codified as subchapter II of chapter 81 of title 22, United States Code. The act gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court".[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

If they had something to fight for, I think they would.

In reality, they have Maduro (who has suppressed a popular uprising against himself, and likely didn't win the last elections) and 20% of inflation per month.

If the US does attack, predictably, only hardcore fans of Maduro will oppose. But the force that Trump has sent is not capable of occupying Venezuela, only striking it and incapacitating the government.

But an attack is an attack - if Trump does order an attack, I have free real estate to sell him... in the Hague, because international agression is prohibited.

Personal suspicion: maybe in Alaska, one man told another: "you can get Ukraine" - "and you can get Venezuela". One of the men may think he'll get Caracas in 3 days and will be met with flowers. The other guy may hope that Caracas looks like Kyiv, which he's been "getting" already for 3 years. But I doubt if Caracas looks like that.

Regardless of what will happen, the story about narco-terrorism is hot air. Smuggling is not war. Smugglers can and should be arrested, not bombed with drones. If this becomes a cause for war, then war will be based on fiction and lies.

The background: Ukraine didn't have 30 years to refine its cruise missiles and long range strike drones - they built them in 3 years.

There are many ways to make a missile navigate.

• it may follow terrain features (hard, you need to thoroughly map a country using a fleet of satellites)
• it may take readings from a satnav system (this can be jammed)
• it may scan for mobile phone towers and match their ID codes to a map

Once a missile has the direction of 2..3 towers confirmed, it knows where it is - and where to go. Crashing into the final target uses machine vision, but getting there does not.

As a result, Russia tries to counter them by shutting down mobile networks. Not sure if it works. Going by the news, doesn't seem to work very well.

As for how to avoid exfiltration of mobile network data - hopeless. People have so much spyware and crap on their phones that you don't need to put an agent on ground to get a list of towers. You just buy out a smartphone app from a shady supplier and develop it into a rootkit, or sell rooted phones on the cheap in the target country.

China is basically going the Marx route to communism.

Kindly, you need to educate yourself about the Chinese economy. If you insist on being an ultra-fan, then know your fandom. For a gentle start, look up the Gini coefficient for various countries from Wikipedia.

Gini coefficient of income inequality

...or just look for blue regions on the map. That's where a socialist, communist or anarchist (genrally, a leftist) might approve of things economically speaking. One should note with curiosity that some of the blue regions are very poor GDP-wise, but some are very rich too.

China isn't blue. In terms of inequality, China is in the same class as the US and Russia. It's better than South American or South African economies, but far worse than the European average. Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Australia, Ukraine, almost any decently developed country beats China in equality, some of them with hands down. Nordic countries also.

Source of map

Poison has been a weapon for ages, so I fully agree.

The flip side of the coin: apparently, Poland has leverage on the US because the US doesn't independently produce sufficient quantities of TNT.

I hope Poland considers using this leverage "to help the Trump administration make smarter decisions".

My interpretation:

• Netanyahu has already secured political control of Shin Bet (secret police) by swapping its director
• he wants full control of the IDF, but some people haven't been willing to swear personal loyalty
• most likely, the general advocate was one
• those people are now removed, one by one, with various methods

As a result, the culture of impunity can continue.

The general advocate who was jailed - she was the person who received, among other documents (likely thousands of documents), the recommendations of the IDF internal investigators about the Rafah ambulance massacre (killing of 15 paramedics and destruction of 5 vehicles).

The IDF recommended to do nothing, claiming that they did nothing particularly wrong, just made some mistakes (executed 15 unarmed medics, some at close range with their hands bound, and tried to conceal the deed).

I don't know what she would have done, but my reading of the background and signals suggests she might have recommended criminal charges. That would have made her removal absolutely vital for the Netanyahu regime.

...and some return, too.

Ukraine is notable in one way: it does not draw up people under 25 years for war (so far). It trains them, it lets them volunteer, it welcomes if they build technology for war, but it doesn't order them to go.

What the reasons are, I'm not totally sure, but I think the government and Rada might want to avoid creating a "lost generation" where many experienced wounds or trauma in youth. The generation they are attempting to spare is a weak spot in Ukraine's population pyramid - relatively few people were born between 1999 and 2004. If that generation has considerably less kids than generations before them, there will be a pretty bad population decline coming.

Of course, some fear that under pressure, government might cave in and start sending increasingly young people to fight. Others meanwhile fear that many will move abroad and never return.

I'm not sure what to think about it. But I'm pretty sure a person just out of school isn't the best candidate for war. Physical fitness is less important today, but psychological stability under pressure is required.